1982 AOTY
I've done it this year too, 100 albums, an estimate of 8 or 9 albums per month. Here is what I jammed, very loosely ranked. Maybe the top 50 you could say it's ranked, with strong feelings towards the top 10. No blurbs this year, or ever again, because it's just not worth the effort. I'm doing these in RYM cause it's easier to move albums up and down but I'm happy to share them here too. I probably missed your favorite, so let me know in the comments! |
100 | | Casiopea Four by Four
Release date: December 16th
Genre: Jazz Fusion
Label: Alfa
Highlight: Shanderia |
99 | | Black Uhuru Chill Out
Release date: May
Genre: Reggae / Roots
Label: Island
Highlight: Darkness |
98 | | Status Quo 1+9+8+2
Release date: April
Genre: Rock
Label: Vertigo
Highlight: Young Pretender |
97 | | Jean-Luc Ponty Mystical Adventures
Release date: January 18th
Genre: Progressive Rock / Jazz Fusion
Label: Atlantic
Highlight: Rythms of Hope |
96 | | La Mode El Eterno Femenino
Release date: ???
Genre: Synthpop / New Wave
Label: Nuevos Medios
Highlight: La teoría de la relatividad |
95 | | The Cleaners From Venus Midnight Cleaners
Release date: December
Genre: New Wave / Post Punk
Label: Calypso Now
Highlight: Only A Shadow |
94 | | The Prisoners A Taste Of Pink
Release date: ???
Genre: Garage Rock
Label: Skydog
Highlight: Better in Black |
93 | | Twelfth Night Fact and Fiction
Release date: December
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Unknown
Highlight: This City |
92 | | Naomi Akimoto The 20th Anniversary
Release date: December 16th
Genre: City Pop
Label: Invitation
Highlight: Enjoy Yourself |
91 | | Hanoi Rocks Self Destruction Blues
Release date: November
Genre: Glam / Hard Rock
Label: Johanna / Mercury
Highlight: Dead By X-Mas |
90 | | Michael Schenker Group Assault Attack
Release date: January - October
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Assault Attack |
89 | | Ornette Coleman Of Human Feelings
Release date: ???
Genre: Jazz
Label: Antilles
Highlight: Love Words |
88 | | Psychic TV Force The Hand Of Chance
Release date: December
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Some Bizarre
Highlight: OV Power |
87 | | Seiko Matsuda Candy
Release date: November 10th
Genre: City Pop
Label: CBS / Sony
Highlight: 星空のドライブ |
86 | | Survivor Eye of the Tiger
Release date: June 8th
Genre: AOR
Label: Scotti Brothers
Highlight: Eye of the Tiger |
85 | | Raven (UK) Wiped Out
Release date: June 3rd
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Neat
Highlight: Faster Than The Speed of Light |
84 | | China Crisis Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms
Release date: November
Genre: New Wave
Label: Virgin
Highlight: No More Blue Horizons |
83 | | Shooting Star Hang On for Your Life
Release date: January
Genre: AOR
Label: Virgin
Highlight: Flesh And Blood |
82 | | Aviador Dro Alas sobre el mundo
Release date: February
Genre: New Wave
Label: Dro
Highlight: Ondina |
81 | | The Roches Keep On Doing
Release date: September 29th
Genre: Folk / Pop
Label: Warner
Highlight: Losing True |
80 | | Blondie The Hunter
Release date: May 27th
Genre: New Wave
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Island of Lost Souls |
79 | | Y&T Black Tiger
Release date: ???
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: A&M
Highlight: Forever |
78 | | Zero Nine Visions, Scenes and Dreams
Release date: January
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Dig It
Highlight: Visions, Scenes and Dreams |
77 | | Manowar Battle Hymns
Release date: August
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Liberty
Highlight: Dark Avenger |
76 | | Killing Joke Revelations
Release date: April
Genre: Post Punk
Label: E'G
Highlight: Land of Milk and Honey |
75 | | Kyoko Koizumi My Fantasy
Release date: August 21st
Genre: City Pop
Label: Victor
Highlight: 私の16才 |
74 | | Heart Private Audition
Release date: May 14th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Epic
Highlight: City's Burning |
73 | | Grace Jones Living My Life
Release date: November 7th
Genre: Dance / Pop
Label: Island
Highlight: Everybody Hold Still |
72 | | Clannad Fuaim
Release date: ???
Genre: Celtic Music
Label: Tara
Highlight: La Breá fán dThuath |
71 | | Riot Restless Breed
Release date: June
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Elektra
Highlight: Showdown |
70 | | Killer (BEL) Wall of Sound
Release date: ???
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Lark / CMC
Highlight: Wall of Sound |
69 | | Witchfinder General Death Penalty
Release date: October
Genre: Heavy Metal / Doom
Label: Heavy Metal
Highlight: Invisible Hate |
68 | | Twisted Sister Under The Blade
Release date: September
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Secret
Highlight: Run For Your Life |
67 | | Singers and Players War of Words
Release date: August
Genre: City Pop
Label: On-U / 99
Highlight: Devious Woman |
66 | | Loudness Devil Soldier
Release date: July 26th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: B&M / Roadrunner
Highlight: Lonely Player |
65 | | Anvil Metal on Metal
Release date: April 15th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Attic
Highlight: Metal on Metal |
64 | | The Names Swimming
Release date: April
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Crépuscule
Highlight: Discovery |
63 | | Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die
Release date: November 4th
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Rough Trade
Highlight: Sweethome Under White Clouds |
62 | | Akina Nakamori Prologue
Release date: July 1st
Genre: City Pop
Label: Warner / Reprise
Highlight: あなたのポートレート |
61 | | Jethro Tull The Broadsword and the Beast
Release date: April
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Broadsword |
60 | | Asia Asia
Release date: March 15th
Genre: AOR
Label: Geffen
Highlight: Heat of the Moment |
59 | | Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Release date: February 25th
Genre: Punk Rock
Label: Epitaph
Highlight: In The Night |
58 | | Maanam O!
Release date: November 15th
Genre: Post Punk / New Wave
Label: Pronit
Highlight: Paranoja jest goła |
57 | | Eloy Time to Turn
Release date: ???
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Harvest
Highlight: Time to Turn |
56 | | Uriah Heep Abominog
Release date: March
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Bronze
Highlight: Chasing Shadows |
55 | | Fleetwood Mac Mirage
Release date: June 18th
Genre: Pop Rock
Label: Warner
Highlight: Love in Store |
54 | | The Au Pairs Sense and Sensuality
Release date: August
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Kamera
Highlight: Instant Touch |
53 | | Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat
Release date: February
Genre: Glam Rock
Label: Johanna / Mercury
Highlight: Visitor |
52 | | Peter Gabriel Security
Release date: September 10th
Genre: Art Rock
Label: Charisma / Geffen
Highlight: San Jacinto |
51 | | Tygers Of Pan Tang The Cage
Release date: August
Genre: hard Rock
Label: MCA
Highlight: Rendesvouz |
50 | | A Certain Ratio Sextet
Release date: January
Genre: Post Punk / Funk
Label: Factory
Highlight: Lucinda |
49 | | A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Seagulls
Release date: April 30th
Genre: New Wave
Label: Jive
Highlight: Modern Love is Automatic |
48 | | Konomi Sasaki 心のうちが分かればいいのに
Release date: February 25th
Genre: Singer Songwriter / Kayo Idol
Label: Sony / CBS
Highlight: ドライブ |
47 | | Phil Collins Hello, I Must Be Going!
Release date: November 1st
Genre: Pop Rock
Label: Atlantic
Highlight: You Can't Hurry Love |
46 | | Obus Poderoso como el trueno
Release date: ???
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Chapa
Highlight: Perdido en la ciudad |
45 | | Romeo Void Benefactor
Release date: August 6th
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Columbia
Highlight: Undercover Kept |
44 | | Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes
Release date: June 10th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Polydor
Highlight: Bring on the Night |
43 | | Taeko Onuki Cliche
Release date: September 21st
Genre: City Pop
Label: RCA
Highlight: Labyrinth |
42 | | KISS Creatures of the Night
Release date: October 13th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Casablanca
Highlight: Creatures of the Night |
41 | | The Sound All Fall Down
Release date: October
Genre: Post Punk
Label: WEA
Highlight: In Suspense |
40 | | The Go-Go's Vacation
Release date: July 20th
Genre: Pop
Label: I.R.S.
Highlight: Vacation |
39 | | XTC English Settlement
Release date: February 12th
Genre: New Wave
Label: Virgin
Highlight: Runaways |
38 | | Lou Reed The Blue Mask
Release date: February
Genre: Art Rock
Label: RCA / Victor
Highlight: The Blue Mask |
37 | | Duran Duran Rio
Release date: May 10th
Genre: Synth Pop
Label: EMI
Highlight: Save a Prayer |
36 | | Diamanda Galas The Litanies of Satan
Release date: February 25th
Genre: Satanic Avant Garde
Label: Y / Virgin
Highlight: Litanies of Satan |
35 | | Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain
Release date: March 24th
Genre: Gothic Rock / Post Punk
Label: Frontier
Highlight: Rome's Distress |
34 | | Kate Bush The Dreaming
Release date: September 1st
Genre: Art Pop
Label: EMI
Highlight: Get Out of My House |
33 | | X Under The Big Black Sun
Release date: July
Genre: Punk
Label: Elektra
Highlight: Under the Big Black Sun |
32 | | Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's
Release date: August 20th
Genre: Synth Pop
Label: Mute
Highlight: Don't Go |
31 | | Pagan Altar Pagan Altar
Release date: December
Genre: Doom
Label: n/a
Highlight: Judgement of the Dead |
30 | | The Church The Blurred Crusade
Release date: March 25th
Genre: Pop / New Wave
Label: Carrére
Highlight: Almost With You |
29 | | Magnum Chase the Dragon
Release date: March
Genre: Hard Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Jet
Highlight: Sacred Hour |
28 | | Ultravox Quartet
Release date: October
Genre: New Wave
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Mine For Life |
27 | | Supertramp …Famous Last Words…
Release date: October
Genre: Pop Rock
Label: A&M
Highlight: It's Raining Again |
26 | | Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out
Release date: October 19th
Genre: Gothic Rock / Post Punk
Label: Beggars Banquet
Highlight: In The Night |
25 | | Steve Miller Band Abracadabra
Release date: June 15th
Genre: New Wave / Pop Rock
Label: Capitol
Highlight: Keeps Me Wondering Why |
24 | | Misfits Walk Among Us
Release date: March
Genre: Horror Punk
Label: Ruby
Highlight: Vampira |
23 | | Venom Black Metal
Release date: November
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Label: Neat
Highlight: Heaven's On Fire |
22 | | Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Release date: May
Genre: Punk
Label: Clay
Highlight: Drunk With Power |
21 | | Siouxsie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Release date: October
Genre: Gothic Pop
Label: Polydor
Highlight: Cascade |
20 | | Cocteau Twins Garlands
Release date: July 10th
Genre: Ethereal Wave
Label: 4AD
Highlight: Blood Bitch |
19 | | Nina Hagen NunSexMonkRock
Release date: May
Genre: Post Punk
Label: CBS
Highlight: Smack Jack |
18 | | The Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky
Release date: May
Genre: Progressive Pop / Rock
Label: Arista
Highlight: Eye In The Sky |
17 | | Talk Talk The Party's Over
Release date: July 12th
Genre: New Romantic / Synthpop
Label: EMI
Highlight: Talk Talk |
16 | | Toto Toto IV
Release date: April 8th
Genre: AOR
Label: Columbia / CBS
Highlight: Africa |
15 | | Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land
Release date: October 5th
Genre: Ambient
Label: Polydor / Virgin
Highlight: Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) |
14 | | Michael Jackson Thriller
Release date: November 30th
Genre: Pop / Dance / r&b
Label: Epic
Highlight: Billie Jean |
13 | | Accept Restless and Wild
Release date: October 4th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Brain
Highlight: Fast as a Shark |
12 | | Steve Reich Tehillim
Release date: September 6th
Genre: A Cappella / Folk
Label: ECM
Highlight: I. Psalm 19:2-5, "Hashamyim mehsapehrim kavohd Kail" |
11 | | Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder
Release date: June 7th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Bronze / Mercury
Highlight: Screaming Blue Murder |
10 | | Motorhead Iron Fist
Release date: April 17th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Bronze / Mercury
Highlight: (Don't Let 'Em) Grind You Down |
9 | | Roxy Music Avalon
Release date: May 28th
Genre: Art Pop
Label: Polydor
Highlight: More Than This |
8 | | Philip Glass Glassworks
Release date: March
Genre: AMbient / Modern Classical
Label: CBS
Highlight: Floe |
7 | | The Cure Pornography
Release date: May 3rd
Genre: Cold Wave / Gothic Rock
Label: A&M
Highlight: Cold |
6 | | Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters
Release date: November
Genre: Punk
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Highlight: Halloween |
5 | | Mecano Mecano
Release date: May 5th
Genre: Pop
Label: CBS
Highlight: Me colé en una fiesta |
4 | | Bad Brains Bad Brains
Release date: February 5th
Genre: Punk / Dub / Reggae
Label: ROIR
Highlight: Don't Need It |
3 | | Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Release date: July 14th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: CBS / Columbia
Highlight: Electric Eye |
2 | | Scorpions Blackout
Release date: March 29th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Harvest / Mercury
Highlight: No One Like You |
1 | | Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Release date: March 22nd
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: EMI
Highlight: Hallowed Be Thy Name |
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